Category: Management

Work is central to our lives. If you work a full-time job, then your work consumes over a third of your waking hours every week—even more if you’ve got a long commute or if working […]

Like a lot of measures that are well-intentioned but ultimately dysfunctional, performance reviews started in government. Feedback as a tool to improve performance is much older. However, in the United States, it was the Performance […]

Handling low performers on a team is one of the worst jobs any leader must do. It’s not fun to have conversations with unmotivated employees and try to figure out how you can get them […]

It’s been said ad nauseum. One of the most significant decisions that leaders make is who to hire. No matter how many core values you have and how many posters you hang, company culture is […]

For several decades, the Gallup Organization has administered the world’s most popular survey of employee engagement. The survey, known sometimes as the Q12, asks participants to rate how much they agree or disagree with 12 […]

Most leaders probably didn’t head into the great work-from-home experiment of 2020, assuming we didn’t know anything about hiring people remotely.  In fact, most leaders struggled with the opposite issues when the initial economic downturn […]